In case any left-leaning types are assuming that Japan has elected an Ardern or even a Merkel, the new Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is widely considered to be a right-wing nationalist who holds Thatcher as her role model – a Japanese version of Meloni, basically. 🫤

Sideways (the movie), George Carlin (the comedian): neither ever disappoints!

the wild ocean in a stone wall

【お知らせ】今週の配信はお休みいたします。金曜日には東京でイベントが開催されます。詳しくはこちら！ finnegans-wake-2025-in-tokyo.peatix.com

Serene! It makes me think of some left-over food in well-made plates, but they also look like planets or large stars eclipsing and reflecting off each other.

sitting on a bench and suddenly noticing an accidental art work by my side

🍂 everyday october 🍂

I'd vote for going through the list of songs performed and/or referenced in the chapter!

I'm beginning my research phase for "Sirens" and I'm not sure what to cover in this episode. I'm considering covering it in a single episode and then moving onto "Cyclops," which I have A LOT to talk about. What would you want me to cover from "Sirens?"

Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Proud to have done a new Japanese translation of Finnegans Wake, Chapter I.2. It took about 15-20 hours per page, making it the longest 18 pages I've ever worked on, but extremely rewarding and funny. finneganswake.net/translation/...

I rarely feel this way but right now I'm jealous of New Yorkers (for being able to go and see this). godotbroadway.com

We are saddened by the passing of Roland McHugh. Roland was a Joyce scholar of six decades and the author of Annotations to Finnegans Wake.

Rest in Peace.

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Ambigram. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram

We're having a bad day over here, in Kyiv. Thousands of people have been left without electricity and water after the night attack. We've been having bad days like this for years now. Russian messages to us are literally missiles. But we're still here. Still reading. We won't forget these messages.

🍂 the dry season

Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly. We just need an Evan Egan to complete the triad!

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵

Read this week's newsletter! We celebrate Miranda's incredible achievement of recording 1,000 NBN interviews!

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Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

💫 how the light gets in 💫

It's so sad to see a surprising number of people online using ChatGPT to generate book reviews and then posting them on their blogs and profiles. They're clearly doing this for reasons other than wanting to share their thoughts, but whatever their motive it just ends up adding to online junk...

The FF7-LoFi set is pretty on-point for some late-night solitary task sessions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOO...